Direct Support Professional - Day & Residential Programs

Job Summary

Required Qualifications

• •Maintain all required trainings, certifications, licenses, and qualifications necessary to perform the essential functions of the position
• •Ensure all credentials remain current in accordance with agency, Connecticut DDS, and regulatory requirements
• •Participate in required agency, Connecticut DDS, safety, compliance, and professional development trainings
• •Demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning and quality service
• •Provide support and coverage across programs, locations, shifts, and service settings as assigned
• •Perform additional duties, assignments, and projects as requested to support program operations and the needs of individuals served
• •Maintain a safe, clean, organized, and welcoming residential environment
• •Maintain professional, respectful, and timely communication with individuals served, coworkers, families, guardians, community partners, and other stakeholders
• •Preserve confidentiality
• •Adhere to Connecticut DDS regulations
• •Adhere to HIPAA requirements
• •Adhere to abuse and neglect reporting laws
• •Adhere to emergency procedures
• •Adhere to agency policies
• •Respond appropriately to behavioral, medical, and environmental emergencies using approved intervention techniques
• •Use crisis response procedures
• •Use sound professional judgment
• •Implement support plans
• •Promote healthy lifestyles
• •Maintain safe environments
• •Communicate effectively with individuals, families, guardians, coworkers, and interdisciplinary teams
• •Maintain timely, accurate, and confidential documentation
• •Complete accurate, timely, and objective documentation in electronic case record (ECR) systems and other agency platforms
• •Collect health information
• •Record appointments
• •Record incidents
• •Complete all required program records
• •Protect the health, safety, privacy, dignity, and rights of individuals
• •Demonstrate integrity
• •Demonstrate accountability
• •Demonstrate cultural competence
• •Demonstrate teamwork
• •Demonstrate compliance with Connecticut DDS regulations
• •Demonstrate compliance with agency policies
• •Demonstrate ethical standards
• •Promote informed choice
• •Encourage self-advocacy
• •Empower individuals to make decisions affecting their own lives
• •Teach and reinforce daily living skills
• •Teach and reinforce social skills
• •Teach and reinforce vocational skills
• •Teach and reinforce independent living skills
• •Provide person-centered instruction
• •Provide coaching
• •Provide positive reinforcement
• •Facilitate meaningful individual and group activities
• •Promote learning
• •Promote skill development
• •Promote employment readiness
• •Promote community participation
• •Achieve person-centered outcomes
• •Assist individuals with activities of daily living (ADLs)
• •Provide personal care
• •Provide hygiene support
• •Provide mobility support
• •Provide meal planning or meal support
• •Provide medication support
• •Assist with household responsibilities
• •Provide communication support
• •Provide transportation
• •Provide financial skills support
• •Provide recreation support
• •Provide other assigned supports
• •Implement individualized goals
• •Implement teaching strategies
• •Implement behavioral support plans
• •Implement nursing protocols
• •Implement other prescribed supports
• •Monitor progress
• •Communicate significant observations to supervisors and interdisciplinary team members
• •Support meaningful participation in home and community life
• •Support individuals in developing independent living skills
• •Support individuals in developing communication skills
• •Support individuals in developing social skills
• •Support individuals in developing vocational skills
• •Support individuals in developing recreational skills
• •Support individuals in developing community integration skills
• •Provide direct support to individuals in accordance with their Individual Plan (IP/ISP)
• •Promote choice
• •Promote dignity
• •Promote independence
• •Promote self-determination
• •Promote meaningful participation in home and community life
• •Ensure services are delivered in accordance with Connecticut DDS regulations
• •Ensure services are delivered in accordance with agency policies
• •Ensure services are delivered in accordance with individual outcomes
• •Provide individualized, respectful, and person-centered services
• •Promote dignity
• •Promote choice
• •Promote independence
• •Promote achievement of personal goals
• •Ensure the physical, emotional, and behavioral well-being of individuals
• •Implement support plans
• •Promote healthy lifestyles
• •Maintain safe environments
• •Support meaningful participation in home and community life
• •Teach and reinforce daily living skills
• •Teach and reinforce social skills
• •Teach and reinforce vocational skills
• •Teach and reinforce independent living skills
• •Protect individual rights
• •Promote informed choice
• •Encourage self-advocacy
• •Empower individuals to make decisions affecting their own lives
• •Demonstrate integrity
• •Demonstrate accountability
• •Demonstrate cultural competence
• •Demonstrate teamwork
• •Demonstrate compliance with Connecticut DDS regulations
• •Demonstrate compliance with agency policies
• •Demonstrate compliance with ethical standards
• •Collaborate with supervisors, nurses, behavior analysts, clinicians, families, guardians, case managers, and other members of the interdisciplinary team
• •Support positive person-centered outcomes
• •Demonstrate professionalism
• •Demonstrate ethical conduct
• •Demonstrate cultural competence
• •Demonstrate accountability
• •Demonstrate person-centered practices
• •Be consistent with The Kennedy Collective's mission
• •Be consistent with The Kennedy Collective's vision
• •Be consistent with The Kennedy Collective's values
• •Be consistent with The Kennedy Collective's policies
• •Advocate for individuals' rights
• •Promote informed choice
• •Promote self-advocacy
• •Promote community inclusion
• •Promote meaningful relationships
• •Promote opportunities for personal growth
• •Promote opportunities for independence
• •Provide support and coverage across programs, locations, shifts, and service settings as assigned to meet the operational needs of The Kennedy Collective
• •Perform additional duties, assignments, and projects as requested to support program operations and the needs of individuals served